Quotes About Adversity

It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.

Because sometimes it was one way, easy, and sometimes it was the other, not easy; the things of your life roared down to you and it was all you could do to grab hold and hang on.

Who would survive this day? And Vorhees knew, to his infinite sorrow, that once again he would be one of the lucky ones. They

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

Whatever humanity inflicts on itself, nature can always go one better.

He tried again, reaching as high as he could, feeling the stitching in his jacket give way under the arms. He couldn't possibly die needing a new jacket. The Doctor gritted his teeth, ready for one last try.

However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse

The only journeys worth taking in life are those that test us to the very core

Out of the frying pan and into the fire

It won't be an easy journey - do not expect it to be. But the easy journeys are not worth the leather on the soles of our shoes, boy. It's the journeys that test us to our very core - the journeys that strip the clothes from our back, mess with our minds and shake our spirits - these are the journeys worth taking in life. They show us who we are.

When it rains, it pours. You decide what comes down.

When you think about it, life is a risk. Every day is a risk. Getting in a car is a risk. Loving is a risk. But, darling, losing it all means that you have a chance to rebuild, better than before.

Justina Chen

I didn't want blind defiance to define me. Not anymore.

What was the worst he could do? Make me feel dumb? Inadequate? Dad had done his damnedest to do that, to steer me to Terra Nullis, that godforsaken empty land where one might survive but never flourish. To keep me in Terra Incognita and remain a girl as undiscovered as Unknown Land itself. He had failed.

We are all made of broken glass. The school grinds along on grief and anger.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Evil flourishes because the good aren't good enough," see murmured. "And sometimes the good just have bad days.

It's the world! What can you do?

War is an admission of failure

A wise man once said, it's not the despair that destroys you, it's the hope.

If there's one truth in this life, it's that you simply can't win. The most you can achieve is to make a nuisance of yourself, for a very short time.